Tomcat 7 skip specific folder loading from webapps

Question

I am having two .war files, say webapp-A.war and webapp-B.war of two different projects. When I start tomcat, it deploys these wars and two folders are created in webapps directory i.e. webapp-A and webapp-B.

When I start tomcat both these folders are scanned and loaded. This increases the startup time of tomcat and consumes more memory. I dont want to work on both at a time but I must be able to switch between any two.

So, is there any way to skip loading of webapp-B when I am working on webapp-A considering both being present in webapps directory?

Answer 1

When working with webapp-A, go to TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml and update the host tag with attribute 'deployIgnore' as shown below

<Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" deployIgnore="webapp-B">

....
</Host>

Start your tomcat server, webapp-B will not be deployed :)

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